Working Life

I have a new piece today at TomPaine called “Ask For Little, Get Nothing” (not my idea for a great title) which looks at the Democrats’ woeful economic agenda and proposes some alternatives that are more bold. This column revives my “Working in America” series, which I will continue as time allows. The upshot of […]

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A hopeful signal. In today’s Washington Post: Although given little public credit at the time, or since, many of the 126 House Democrats who spoke out and voted against the October 2002 resolution that gave President Bush authority to wage war against Iraq have turned out to be correct in their warnings about the problems […]

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Really worth reading…Rich on our president. Has He Started Talking to the Walls? IT turns out we’ve been reading the wrong Bob Woodward book to understand what’s going on with President Bush. The text we should be consulting instead is “The Final Days,” the Woodward-Bernstein account of Richard Nixon talking to the portraits on the […]

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The other day, I wrote about recommendations made by a Bush Administration-appointed committee to ease up on regulations in capital markets. If you’re interested in reading the whole draft report, here it is–in its entire 152-page sleep-inducing form. A couple of other thoughts since my initial post. One of the he first point that leaps […]

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As the debate heats up over raising the federal minimum wage (Nancy Pelosi says the hike will be passed in the first 100 hours of the new Democratic House majority), it’s worth looking at something the folks at the Economic Policy Institute put out which documents how state minimum wage hikes have fared. EPI asked: […]

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It never ceases to amaze me. Maybe I–and you–should get used to it. Maybe i’m naive. But, you gotta love the gall…The Committee on Capiutal Markets Regulation has recommended that it be “harder for companies to be indicted by the government or sued by private lawyers, and urges policies to keep the Securities and Exchange […]

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Well, yes, thanks–I had a grand little vacation. Thanks to Stef for covering the blog for me. I hope everyone treated her nicely… I am still wading through the various stuff floating around in email and on my desk but this caught my eye: just as I was thinking of canceling my Business Week subscription […]

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There’s already resistance to Walmart’s plan to open hundreds of stores in India. Walmart’s deal to partner with the Indian company Bharti is being called into question as an attempt to skirt the law. As per the agreement between the two corporate giants, Bharti would manage the front-end of the business, while Walmart would take […]

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While Walmart’s sales fell short of expectations this holiday weekend, and its website crashed on “Black Friday,” the company announced a new deal today that will expand its empire into India. Partnering with the Bharti Group, India’s top telecommunications company, the joint-venture plans to open “several hundred” stores, beginning next summer. The partnership is necessary […]

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More discussion of the divisions between the Clintonite “free-trade” Democrats and the incoming populists in today’s NY Times. I just hope they come up with a better name for their group than “Shared Prosperity.” That sounds like a team on Survivor.

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